Talk:S. R. Crown Hall

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The result was: promoted by SquawkGuard talk 07:46, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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S. R. Crown Hall

• ... that in 2005, the Illinois Institute of Technology auctioned off the right to smash one of S. R. Crown Hall's windows? Source: "Mies' grandson wins bid to break window at IIT". Chicago Tribune. April 27, 2005. p. 3. "Mies' grandson Dirk Lohan bid $2,705 in an eBay auction to shatter a 10-foot plate-glass window May 17 at S.R. Crown Hall, a National Historic Landmark at the Illinois Institute of Technology."
  • ALT1: ... that in 2005, the architect Dirk Lohan paid $2,705 for the right to smash a window at a building his grandfather designed? Source: "Mies' grandson wins bid to break window at IIT". Chicago Tribune. April 27, 2005. p. 3. "Mies' grandson Dirk Lohan bid $2,705 in an eBay auction to shatter a 10-foot plate-glass window May 17 at S.R. Crown Hall, a National Historic Landmark at the Illinois Institute of Technology."
  • ALT2: ... that the architect of S. R. Crown Hall claimed that it "could be a nightclub on Saturday night and a garage on Sunday morning"? Source: Frohburg, Jan (November 4, 2019). "Ellington under Glass: Integral Ball Proves Versatility of Crown Hall". BAc Boletín Académico. Revista de investigación y arquitectura contemporánea. Vol 9. p. 48.
  • ALT3: ... that a Chicago building inspector classified S. R. Crown Hall like an industrial structure because it was unlike any classroom building he had ever seen? Source: Spaeth, David A. (1985). Mies Van Der Rohe. p. 152.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1994_Papua New Guinea financial crisis

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 744 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 15:05, 28 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

• Good work! QPQ is good. As for the article, it has been expanded 5x since August 26, is super long, well-researched, illustrated, and written to style. Spot-checked some facts and they checked out. I like ALT1 the best, and its fact is present in the article and the cited source, but I'd change it to just: ... that architect Dirk Lohan paid $2,705 for the right to smash a window at a building his grandfather designed? ꧁Zanahary꧂ 04:38, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]